Ridgeway Rules of Evidence

Renumbered upon the Federal article scheme; conformed to 6 R. Stat. §§ 131.204 and 131.501.

Adopted by the Supreme Court of the State of Ridgeway through the Judicial Conference on Friday, July 31, 2026, under Const. art. V § 9 and 3 R. Stat. § 121.106, and operative from that date. These Rules summarize the law of evidence applied in proceedings in the courts of the State of Ridgeway.

These Rules were adopted by the Supreme Court of the State of Ridgeway, sitting through the Judicial Conference, on Friday, July 31, 2026, under Const. art. V § 9 and 3 R. Stat. § 121.106, and are operative from that date. They summarize the law of evidence applied in proceedings in the courts of the State as set forth in state statutes, common law, and rules of the court, and as required by the Constitution of the State of Ridgeway.

These Rules are numbered upon the article scheme by which rules of evidence are conventionally cited: each Title occupies a hundred-block, so that the 100s are general provisions, the 400s relevancy, the 500s privileges, the 600s witnesses, the 700s opinion and expert evidence, the 800s hearsay, the 900s authentication, the 1000s the contents of writings and records, and the 1100s the miscellaneous rules. Where a rule is the analogue of a Federal Rule of Evidence it bears that number; numbers for which this State has no analogue are left unused.

Rules 101(5), 103(18), 302(9), 609(2), 611(7), 615(1), 615(3), 802(4), 804(2), 1101(7), 1105(4), 1105(6), and 1107(2) were amended to conform them to 6 R. Stat. § 131.501 as enacted by § 4 of the Criminal Trial Presence and Default Reform Act (S12-13). Rules 101(5) and 802(5) were further amended to conform them to 6 R. Stat. §§ 131.204 and 131.204(b) as amended and enacted by the Act designated S12-20.

Nothing in these Rules abridges, enlarges, or modifies a substantive right, as 3 R. Stat. § 121.106(b) requires.